Improvement in stair-rods



f UNITED STATES PATENT EEIGE.

PURCHES MILES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN YSTAIRmRQDS.

. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,8?6, dated December 10, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PURcHEs MI-LEs, of the city and State of New York, have invented an- Improvement in Stair-Rods; and the following is declared to be a correct description of the same.

ly been attached by means of ornamental end pieces forming sockets for receiving the ends ofthe rods, and these have been slotted upon the under side so as to slide upon screw-eyes or fastenin gs at the ends of the rod, and passing into the stairs.l In many instances the width of the stair-way is but little more than the use of rods nearly as long as the width of the stairs, and preventing the stair-way being injured by the sliding sockets or ends of the rod, because the movement of the bands is toward the center of the rod, instead of being away from the end of the rod, as heretofore.

In the drawing, Figure l represents the two ends of a rod, one with the band in place and the other with the band slipped back upon the rod. Fig. 2 is a s ide view of the end piece and band in place, and Fig. 3 is a detached yview of the end piece. Before my invention stair-rods had frequent- The end piece c is made with a hole through it for the attachingscrew b, and c is a lip upon the end piece to form a stop to prevent end motion in the rod. This lip c may be extended in the form of an ornament, d, where the width of' the stairway is sufficient to allow of its use. At the back edges of the end pieces a, and at top and bottom, are grooves '11 i for the ends of the sliding band k; and this band is to be made df'siiet-metal adaptedto the shape of thestair-rod f, and with lips o o turned toward each other, so as to enter within the grooves M,- and hence this band can be slipped 'on oroii the end piece for holding the strirfrodifilacballowing it to be removed.

The band k with lips o o, in combination with the end piece a. and stop c, as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed by me this 24th day of May, A. D.

PURGHES MILES.

Witnesses GEO. T. PINGKNEY, Giras. H. SMITH. 

